A breath of freedom : the civil rights struggle, African American GIs, and Germany / Maria Höhn and Martin Klimke

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Main Authors:Höhn, Maria (Author)
Other Authors:Klimke, Martin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:New York, NY ; Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, October 2010
Series:Culture, politics, and the Cold War
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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Introduction
Closing ranks : World War I and the rise of Hitler
Fighting on two fronts : World War II and civil rights
"We will never go back to the old way again" : African American GIs and the occupation of Germany
Setting the stage for Brown : desegregating the army in Germany
Bringing civil rights to East and West : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Cold War Berlin
Revolutionary alliances : the rise of Black power
Heroes of the other America : East German solidarity with the African American freedom struggle
A call for justice : the racial crisis in the military and the GI movement.